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Issue of the day: Identify those behind bullying video
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strong>Oct. 13, Online
The Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) has urged the government and the National Police to seek and arrest those responsible for uploading a video showing the classroom beating of a fourth grade female student at SD Trisula Perwari elementary school in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra.
'We want the Communications and Information Ministry and the National Police's criminal investigation division to find the person who uploaded the video.
Any video that contains violence may not be uploaded to a publicly accessed website like YouTube because children's actions can be influenced by it,' KPAI secretary Erlinda said Monday, as quoted by kompas.com.
Your comments:
Shut down the video and give a special award to the person who uploaded it.
The government should admit that none of the officials will care and nobody will know about bullying a little girl for a small coin, while the bullies were a flock of bigger boys.
It took place in a religious school in a small town, thousands of miles from Jakarta.
I also heard that the victim did not tell her parents about it.
I guess it is already common practice in the school and bullying is now a national epidemic among our kids.
Fussion
So far, there are different stories about the whereabouts of the teacher.
Even so, the kids involved in the bullying should be held accountable, as they were mature enough to know what they were doing, especially the guy that stood like a thug, showing off.
They should be paraded and apologize to the victim. I salute the victim.
Your predators will be punished, be brave and do your best. I salute you!
Ritchy
Why have the principal and the teachers not been suspended pending charges for neglect of duty?
Rusty Nails
Ironic and pitiful that the authorities ban the uploading of videos that depict violence but routinely allow degrading and violent material aimed at children to be shown on TV.
Depictions of violence, whether real or for 'entertainment', are equally damaging to young minds.
Anonicom
